Acknowledgements

We have a great many thanks to give, and have organized them into the following categories:

We are tremendously grateful to the many businesses that supported the First ECG Maine to Florida Tour (Fall 2004). Please take a moment to check out these wonderful local business along the tour's route. They're listed according to the tour's itinerary, and we hope that you will lend them your business whenever you're in their area. Be sure to let them know you heard about them from the East Coast Greenway Web site!

Our Latest Supporters:

  • For sponsoring our March 2007 meetings in Jacksonville:
    Florida Office of Greenways and Trails
    Phillip M. Scanlan & Paul Russell
    Ray & Pat Fisher; China Cat Estate Liquidators
    Jacksonville attorney William H. Jeter, Jr.
    Jacksonville Historical Society
    White Oak Plantation
    R-A-M Professional Group
    Pat Hamilton; Southern Realty
    Northeast Florida Office, Trust for Public Land

  • For sponsoring our November 2006 meetings in Baltimore:
    Maryland Department of Transportation


    Maryland Port Administration






  • "The Brompton is the only bike in the world to combine such ready portability with a first-class ride, and it creates countless new opportunities for using a bicycle." Thanks to Brompton for donating a bicycle for trail inspection purposes.


  • "Finally, here are bikes that fit right into your life. Transportation Breezers deliver comfort and performance as you go where you need to go." Thanks to Breezer for donating a bicycle for trail inspection and tour support purposes.


  • League of American Bicyclists: thank you for supporting ECGA membership development


  • Rails-to-Trails Conservancy: thank you for supporting ECGA membership development

  • Elizabeth Brody: thank you for supporting ECGA fundraising activities


  • Fay, Spofford & Thorndike: Excellence in Engineering since 1914. Thanks to FST for sponsoring our spring board meeting.

  • Educational Foundation of America: thank you for supporting our National Trail Program


  • Bikes Belong Coalition: thank you for supporting our efforts in Florida

  • Rhode Island Foundation: thank you for supporting our efforts in Rhode Island


  • Vanasse Hangen Brustlin: Transportation, Land Development, Environmental Services. Thanks to VHB for supporting our spring board meeting.

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    Related to this website, we thank:

  • Fuss & O'Neill, Consulting Engineers for their work creating the east coast route map
  • A gifted photographer and his electronic publication: John Alphonse and Reality Times.
  • Micahsoft for their button-making freeware

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    For their technical assistance, we greatly appreciate the work of:

  • The Adeline LaPlante Center, Peacedale, RI
  • Bingham-McCutcheon LLP
  • The Connecticut National Guard
  • Delaware Valley Regional Planning Council
  • EM Design, Providence, RI
  • Faye, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc.
  • Friends in Charlestown
  • Fuss & O'Neill Consulting Engineers
  • Greenways, Inc.
  • Maine DOT
  • The National Park Service:
  • Blackstone Valley National Heritage Corridor
  • RTCA, Mid-Atlantic Region
  • RTCA, New England Region
  • RTCA, Southeast Region
  • New Jersey Department of Transportation
  • The RBA Group
  • The Rhode Island National Guard
  • Seniors Helping Others, Kingston, RI
  • Southern Maine Community College (formerly Southern Maine Technical College)
  • U.S. Coast Guard Academy
  • US DOT
  • Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
  • Wilmington Area Planning Council

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    For their financial assistance, we thank the following foundations:

  • The American Express Cultural Heritage Philanthropic Program
  • Bikes Belong Coalition
  • The Boston Foundation
  • The Champlin Foundations
  • The Cricket Foundation
  • The Dunn Foundation
  • ExxonMobil Corporation's Community Contributions Program
  • The Fairfield County Foundation
  • The Gibbons Foundation
  • The Hope Goddard Iselin Foundation
  • The Jane Timken Charitable Trust
  • The Jewish Communal Fund
  • The Knapp Foundation
  • The Kodak - American Greenways Fund
  • New York Community Trust
  • The Otto York Foundation
  • Park Foundation
  • The Prince Charitable Trusts
  • The Prospect Hill Foundation
  • Recreational Equipment, Incorporated
  • The Rhode Island Foundation
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • The Surdna Foundation
  • The Underhill Foundation
  • The William Penn Foundation

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    For their generosity, we thank the following companies:

  • Ayres Engineering
  • Amtrak
  • Beacon Mutual Insurance Company
  • The Bike Doctor, Anne Arundel County, MD
  • Bikeways Engineering
  • Breezer Bikes: Transportation for a Healthy Planet
  • Bridge America
  • Brompton Bicycle
  • Burgess & Niple
  • Campbell Thomas & Co.
  • Campmor
  • Close, Jensen & Miller, PC
  • Cosmed, Inc.
  • DeLorme: Mapping Software, GPS, and GIS Solutions
  • EM Design
  • ET Techtonics
  • Eastern Mountain Sports
  • Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc.
  • Fuss & O'Neill, Consulting Engineers
  • Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.
  • Greenways Inc.
  • J. Donnelly Direct
  • Kimley-Horn Associates
  • Kise Straw & Kolodner
  • The Kodak Corporation
  • Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
  • Milone & McBroom
  • Northeast Utilities
  • Pare Engineering
  • Patagonia
  • PG&E Generating
  • Pratt & Whitney
  • Radisson Hotels
  • The RBA Group
  • Rizzo Associates
  • The Savings Bank of Manchester
  • Signature Printing
  • Soil Stabilization, Inc.
  • Southwest Airlines
  • Steadfast Bridge
  • Toole Design Group
  • United International Corporation
  • United Printing
  • United Technologies
  • Universal Printing, Providence, RI
  • Urbitran
  • VHB, Inc.
  • Vollmer Associates
  • Wallace Robertsd Todd
  • The Washington Trust Company
  • Wells Woodworking Specialties
  • Wilbur Smith Associates

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    These retail establishments support the East Coast Greenway. Please show them your appreciation by giving them your patronage!

  • Alternative Spoke, Willington CT
  • Bike Rack, Inc., Waterbury CT
  • Blackstone Canal Bicycles, Uxbridge, MA
  • Cycle Escape, Hebron, CT
  • Ferris Wheels, Jamaica Plain, MA
  • Light St. Cycles, Baltimore, MD
  • Manchester Cycle Shop, Manchester CT
  • The Bike Doctor, shops in eastern Maryland
  • The Bike Shop, Manchester CT
  • Wheels of Steel, Linthicum, MD

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    And of course, we thank all of the other individuals, organizations, companies, and government officials that are helping make the East Coast Greenway dream become a reality. Thank you!

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